Describe how and why you chose your iGEM project.
Describe how and why you chose your iGEM project.
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Man-made drugs and waste have accumulated in our natural environments and damage the flora and fauna that thrive in these habitats. Estrogenic pollution damages microorganisms and aquatic species but also impacts humans, causing cancer and reproductive harm.
Our goal is to bioengineer bacteria to work for us. This means, we will create a biofilm-supported filtration system to degrade and detect estradiol in wastewater. We aim to create the foundation for a biofilm system in order to attack several other toxins, such as heavy metals or micro-plastics, in the future.
We encourage you to put up a lot of information and content on your wiki, but we also encourage you to include summaries as much as possible. If you think of the sections in your project description as the sections in a publication, you should try to be concise, accurate, and unambiguous in your achievements. Your Project Description should include more information than your project abstract.
iGEM teams are encouraged to record references you use during the course of your research. They should be posted somewhere on your wiki so that judges and other visitors can see how you thought about your project and what works inspired you.